The Story of Thrive Hong Kong
Thrive Hong Kong Charitable Limited (IR Ref.: 91/16799), a Hong Kong registered children and youth education charity. We envision to turn under-resourced children and youth into self-confident and positive future leaders who are motivated to give back to the Hong Kong society. It was co-founded by Ms. Polly Chan & Ms. Lilian Sze who had joined hands in setting up and managing 2 former education charities. Together they had empowered 500+ under-resourced children and their families during 2009 to 2017.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO?
Thrive Hong Kong PDP
Athlete II
2 Apr 2023 | More highlights of the Jockey Club Kitchee Centre's eye-opening visit! Other than learning different football skills, Thrive Hong Kong's students have also visited the fitness centre and enjoyed a mini-football match which has shown their teamwork very well during the visit.
An encouragement from one of our students to his teammates, "You can do it, try your best!"
What is more important for our students? - Team spirit
Thanks again for the Hong Kong Champion football club, Kitchee Sports Club's arrangement!
Thrive Hong Kong PDP
Medical
5 Mar 2023 | Thank you for our guest teachers, Dr. Wong, Dr. Chan, Dr. Lin & Dr. Szeto for sharing their insightful personal stories as a Dentist with our students. Our students also got the valuable opportunity to visit Dr. Wong & Dr. Lin's clinic and experienced to be a dentist or nurse. It was really an inspiring and unforgettable experience for our students!
Sharing from one of our students, "After today's visit, I know that the future is full of possibilities. I am also possible to become a trained dentist!"
Thrive Hong Kong PDP
Athlete II
2 Apr 2023 | Thank you for the Hong Kong Champion football club, Kitchee Sports Club 's arrangement, Thrive Hong Kong's students have the opportunity to visit the Jockey Club Kitchee Centre in Shatin. Following the Coach's teaching, our students get to learn different football skills and teamwork. All of our students and volunteers enjoyed the visit very much!
Charity Event Initiated
by Our Impact Partner
19 March 2023 | Thank you very much for Ms. Miu Fung for her generous support towards Thrive Hong Kong! We are so thankful to everyone supported the charity event -《洶湧的愛》initiated by Ms. Miu Fung.
We have a lot of work to do, and your generous support helps us get that important work done.
Together we inspire more children to Thrive!
Thrive Hong Kong PDP
Athlete I
26 Mar 2023 | Thrive Hong Kong was so lucky to have the support from the Hong Kong Champion football club, Kitchee Sports Club! 2 professional soccer players, Clement and Ellison shared their insightful personal stories as a professional soccer player with our students. Clement and Ellison also taught our students to do simple football and physical trainings. Some of our students were very interested to become a professional soccer player!
Special thanks to 212 studio as our venue sponsor!
Kick Start of
Thrive Hong Kong PDP
26 Feb 2023 | We are happy to share with you about the start of our "Thrive Hong Kong Personal Development Pilot Program". Medical - dental professional was our first theme. Our new students have learned new vocabulary such as dental hygienist, dental floss, etc. from our English teacher, Ms. MayMay and international volunteers. They have also invented their new tastes of toothpaste, ice-cream, potato chips, Indian spicy, etc. What taste will you chose?
**Special thanks to 212 studio as our venue sponsor and providing a comfortable learning environment for our students!
Program Development
We adopt a motivation-directed approach and integrate the concept of life skills* into our learning model. Learning in Thrive Hong Kong is a collaborative process between different stakeholders. We encourage our students to identify and embrace their individual strengths and personal motivations.
*Life skills have been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the ability to adapt and behave positively, enabling individuals to respond effectively to the demands and challenges of daily life.
Youth Empowerment Program (YEP)
For Aged 12 - 24
ENGAGEMENT
EXPLORATION
EMPOWERMENT
Personal Development Program (PDP)
For Children (P5 - P6)
EXPLORATION
ENTHUSIASM
ENCOURAGEMENT
Family Empowerment Program (FEP)
For Family members of PDP
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
ENCOURAGEMENT
EDUCATION
THRIVE HONG KONG IS INSPIRED BY A TESTED PROGRAM IN THE NETHERLANDS
We modelled on Stichting IMC Weekendschool, the Netherlands. It was established in 1998 by psycologist Heleen Terwijn and is currently serving 3000+ students across 58 locations in the Netherlands with more than 3200 graduates. Stichting IMC Weekendschool was an UN award winner in 2009, a finalist for the WISE Award in 2010 and Brock International Prize in Education in 2016.
Thrive Hong Kong was officially recognized as Stichting IMC Weekendschool ‘s sister school in Sept 2020 and joined its international network in the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico and Malaysia.
Meet Our Founders
POLLY CHAN
(Co-founder & Chairman of the Board)
Polly's life mission is to inspire people to develop themselves further and share more love with one another.
She has 20+ years global HR and CSR Leadership experience and has gained wide exposures with10+ industries including FinTech, Tech, Supply Chain Management, Aviation, Manufacturing, etc.
Partnering with Stichting IMC Weekendschool in the Netherlands, she founded IMC Sunday School, an education charity for under-resourced children during 2009 to 2015. She later co-founded i-Future Teens for the same charitable cause until 2017.
She has turned into a serial entrepreneur. She co-founded GTP Talent Consultancy and GTP Talent Search. She has become the Regional Director for CLS Asia, the home for Situational Leadership.
LILIAN SZE
(Co-founder & Head of Operations)
Lilian is a Registered Social Worker and has over 18 years experience working in the social welfare field including frontline service, consultative body of government, NGO management and etc.
With her strong belief in people’s potential, she has co-founded Thrive Hong Kong with the aims to turn under-resourced children in Hong Kong to become self-confident, responsible, creative and happy global citizens.
To work for the betterment of the society and create a brighter future for our children have always been her life mission. Lilian has a Master Degree of Social Sciences in Applied Psychology and a Bachelor degree of Social Work.